Performance Management
Way back in 2005 I said performance reviews were a problem (in We Have Always Done It That Way--still a good book, if I do say so myself). Since then, many others have been coming out against performance reviews--like th ...
Category: Individual Development
The Hero is You
The very first words in our book Humanize are from the character Morpheus, in the movie The Matrix: Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony ...
Taking "High Performance" Seriously
I posted two weeks ago about the awesome slide deck that Netflix put up on SlideShare about their culture (that deck has been viewed 2.2 million times, by the way). My first post focused on only one of the seven points t ...
Better Work Starts with Better Schools
A couple of times over the last few months, people have asked me whether we tackle the topic of education in Humanize. We don't, specifically, but I get where the question is coming from. We argue in Humanize that shifti ...
Letting Reality Sink In
I delivered a session on Humanize earlier this week at an event put on by Goodwill Industries. There is one part part of my talk I have titled "management is failing." For those of you who have read the book, that part o ...
Trapped by our own Minds
I've been around the block when it comes to professional speaking. I've seen the tricks of the trade--opening with a joke, dramatic pauses, giving people the "if you only take ONE thing from this talk..." line. But I wil ...
Future of Work Manifesto
You've probably already seen this on Maddie's blog. And if not, you can also see it on Charlie Judy's HR Fishbowl site. And now I'm putting it here. What is it? It's a "manifesto" about the future of work. Maddie is the ...
Changing the World in 2012
Maddie tagged me in a "how are you going to change the world in 2012" meme in a blog post last week. She was inspired by this post by Craig Newmark, and now she's asked a whole host of us to talk about what we're going t ...
We Have No Idea What We're Doing
Whenever I get some time to think deeply about things related to the workplace, like how do we make work better, or what is leadership, or what is management, then I end up inescapably coming to the conclusion that is th ...
Love and Power
So here's something fairly deep to think about. Nilofer Merchant wrote an interesting blog post last week that told a story about when she was at a rather high-powered networking event a few years ago and was "between o ...